Mr. Speaker, the member opposite seems to be confused. He does not appear to know the difference between a ways and means motion and a budget.
There are Canadians across this country, young people, who are seeing a very bleak future for themselves. They cannot afford to buy a home in the community in which they are born. Seniors cannot afford to eat the same way they were eating just three years ago. Yet the Liberal government is refusing to present a budget. It wants a blank cheque of some $500 billion, half a trillion dollars, to spend six months' worth of that money, and to come back sometime in the fall and say, “We have already spent half of this money. Here is a budget now.” No Canadian would believe this is serious government.
My question to the member opposite is this: Why does he not stand up to his boss, the Prime Minister, and say, “Present a budget now before the House breaks for the summer”?